Interiors were shot at Paramount's Hollywood studios, where Elvis met Britain's Tom Jones for the first time. They later became good friends. On location, Elvis met another popular British singer of the time, Peter Noone, who was there at the time with his band, Herman's Hermits. Photographs and a taped interview of this occasion do exist, although the discussion is hardly incisive - consisting mostly of inconsequential small talk. Back in Hollywood, Elvis met with the Beatles at his Bel-Air home in August. They spent some time together and the sad fact is that no photographs of the meeting, or tapes of the jamming session which took place, exist anywhere. This would have been so much more interesting and of greater historical significance than the Herman's Hermits meeting. In the Beatles 'Anthology' television documentary, three decades after the event, Paul McCartney glowingly referred to the occasion as 'One of the great meetings of my life'.

British actress Suzanna leigh, Elvis's leading lady in the movie, had co-starred opposite Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis in the Paramount comedy Boeing Boeing just prior to Paradise, Hawaiian Style. After this, she appeared in a couple of other films, including The Deadly Bees, a British thriller from 1966. Her film career appeared to stall after this period. Marianna Hill went on to further roles, notably in Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter (1973) and The Godfather Part 2 (1974). In the latter, she played the tempestous wife of Fredo Corleone (John Cazale). James Shigeta seemed to disappear from film roles, although he did have a role much later on in Die Hard (1988).

This information was produced by the Elvis Presley Film Society in August 1998